Landylachs

Illustrations & Comics 🌱 "The Harbinger's Path" (Trahearne/Malyck fan comic) 🌱 Read here: Landylachs.com/harbinger Links: Landylachs.com/links No genAI is used in any part of my workflow. Side-tumblr: @secrets-and-shadow Reblog tumblr: @super-cool-sylvari

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Edit: The comic is now live! :D (Launched May 12, 2025)

READ HERE from Page 1

Original post below:

I'm very excited to announce The Harbinger's Path, a Trahearne and Malyck Guild Wars 2 fan comic!

I've made a little preview page with more info coming soon! The address is in the last image above.

The Harbinger’s Path is a completely fan-made project, unofficial, and not affiliated with ArenaNet – it’s a small passion-project I’ve decided to do while not part of the Creative Partnership, as I felt more comfortable working on something more personal to me on my own.

Especially as I’m not sure how much interest there might be in this project beyond my own specific tastes - though of course, I hope someone else might also enjoy it, too. ;)

Also, I've seen the recent tumblr posts - I'm hopeful this site will keep on kicking, but just in case: I plan to also post updates to bsky, and I even learned how to add an RSS feed for the website :O The link is on the preview page!

(If I had known how easy it was to create your own RSS feed, I would have done so years ago!)

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Quick note as a few have told me it's tricky finding where to sign-up!

Scroll down & sign-up here to join the interest-check for "The Harbinger's Path" hardcopy fanbook.

Info will be emailed tomorrow on Monday, June 1! Only emails part of this group will be able to view it.

Please keep an eye out tomorrow for this email, because it will be slightly time-sensitive once I send it.

-- If you can see the full post and don't see a form, then you've already joined, and should receive the email tomorrow!

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Closes tonight 11:59 pm (23:59) Pacific Time!

I will be out for much of today, and will respond to any new requests later tonight. Also because I had a question about it, international shipping is available! :D

Thank you so much again for your interest in these books! I will write a proper thank-you email tomorrow, but I'm truly so grateful for how you helped make this project possible. I hope you are having the most wonderful of weekends!

[landylachs]

"The scholar witnessed the fulfillment of his dream."

Wow, I somehow never posted this one here - I saw fan speculation earlier about how the gw2 (?) teaser from today might be a cleansed Orr! :O Which reminded me of this older art I was inspired to paint shortly after finishing the Knight of the Thorn questline.

It involves one of my headcanons where Trahearne brings Malyck to a cleansed Orr, after the Firstborn cleanses Malyck from Mordremoth's corruption (this headcanon takes place after Heart of Thorns).

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On this sunny Saturday, I had a chance to scrounge up the original file on my external - fixed the watermark, updated the font, and added a detail crop here.

There's also a higher-resolution version of the full painting at the end of the post, after a reddit user asked for one last week. I decided to make an exception this time - both because this painting is rather old at this point, and in celebration of Guild Wars 3 finally being real. :D

It's also almost the last day to ask for print books before I close requests. More info here if you are so inclined!

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"The Mordrem Lieutenant and the Pact Marshal"

[starseers-garden]

I swear, every time I see you draw these two I need to hug my nonexistent Trahearne and Malyck plushies and try to imagine a world where Mordremoth didn’t screw up everything

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"The Mordrem Lieutenant and the Pact Marshal"

[froggychairmimic]

jumping up and down and cheering because i finally have @landylachs 's gorgeous work in my hands!!!

thank you landy for sharing your passion for these two with the rest of us and letting us all get to enjoy your gorgeous art!! can't wait for what's next :D

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YAY I'm glad they arrived safely froggy! Your friend was so nice and it was lovely meeting them, thanks again to you and please thank them again for me for stopping by! :D

I hope you enjoy reading them! And thank you always for your kind words & encouragement about The Harbinger's Path, they mean so much to me! <3

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GUILD WARS 3!!!!!

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Just learned it's a prequel taking place "over a thousand years before the original game" - before Guild Wars 1!

MY POOR TRAHEARNE

MY POOR SYLVARI

MY CONFLICTED HEART

Edit: Here's a link to one of the press releases sites are starting to post now: https://www.rpgsite.net/news/20548-guild-wars-3-ps5-pc-2027-beta

Relevant quote!

"Taking place over a thousand years before the events of the original game, Guild Wars 3 is set in the Tyrian region of Orr, a vast wilderness frontier imbued with the world’s magic."

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GUILD WARS 3!!!!!

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Quick note as a few have told me it's tricky finding where to sign-up!

Scroll down & sign-up here to join the interest-check for "The Harbinger's Path" hardcopy fanbook.

Info will be emailed tomorrow on Monday, June 1! Only emails part of this group will be able to view it.

Please keep an eye out tomorrow for this email, because it will be slightly time-sensitive once I send it.

-- If you can see the full post and don't see a form, then you've already joined, and should receive the email tomorrow!

[landylachs]

Email sent!

Info is only visible to people part of the interest-check as of this post. If you see this message late, join the interest check-through the link above, and I will periodically check the list and manually grant you access.

If you have questions about anything, please feel free to ask!

[landylachs]

A few people mentioned having trouble finding the email! Please check your email filters, especially if you use gmail. Gmail sometimes randomly filters emails into the other tabs. If you don't see the email in your main inbox, it's most likely in one of your other tabs.

If you've requested access after June 1, I've manually granted those requests as of this post. Please check your email filters if you don't see it.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask me. Thanks again! :D

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Silly Trahearne & Malyck sketch to warm-up my hand. Just for fun/my personal amusement, don't take it too seriously. :p

Tangentially related to yesterday's art, ha. I love contemplating the path they could have taken to arrive to Malyck's cleansing.

[landylachs]

"The scholar witnessed the fulfillment of his dream."

Wow, I somehow never posted this one here - I saw fan speculation earlier about how the gw2 (?) teaser from today might be a cleansed Orr! :O Which reminded me of this older art I was inspired to paint shortly after finishing the Knight of the Thorn questline.

It involves one of my headcanons where Trahearne brings Malyck to a cleansed Orr, after the Firstborn cleanses Malyck from Mordremoth's corruption (this headcanon takes place after Heart of Thorns).

[landylachs]

Quick note as a few have told me it's tricky finding where to sign-up!

Scroll down & sign-up here to join the interest-check for "The Harbinger's Path" hardcopy fanbook.

Info will be emailed tomorrow on Monday, June 1! Only emails part of this group will be able to view it.

Please keep an eye out tomorrow for this email, because it will be slightly time-sensitive once I send it.

-- If you can see the full post and don't see a form, then you've already joined, and should receive the email tomorrow!

[landylachs]

Email sent!

Info is only visible to people part of the interest-check as of this post. If you see this message late, join the interest check-through the link above, and I will periodically check the list and manually grant you access.

If you have questions about anything, please feel free to ask!

[landylachs]

Quick note as a few have told me it's tricky finding where to sign-up!

Scroll down & sign-up here to join the interest-check for "The Harbinger's Path" hardcopy fanbook.

Info will be emailed tomorrow on Monday, June 1! Only emails part of this group will be able to view it.

Please keep an eye out tomorrow for this email, because it will be slightly time-sensitive once I send it.

-- If you can see the full post and don't see a form, then you've already joined, and should receive the email tomorrow!

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Another year, another successful Fanime! My cosplay lineup this year:

Friday - Apollo Justice (Ace Attorney) *DEBUT* Saturday - The Shadow (Look Outside) Sunday - Neon White (Neon White) Monday - Chilchuck (Dungeon Meshi, not pictured)

Met some very cool people and attended some very fun panels/events. And got some very good loot! Can't wait for next year!

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The Harbinger's Path Cover + one of my favorite interior spreads!

If you'll be in the Bay Area this weekend, see these books yourselves at Manga Ichiba during Fanime, in the "DoubleTree" part of the convention!

Table: B16 Date: Sat May 23, 2026 Time: Day, 10 am - 4 pm ("General Audiences") 

Directions and maps in the full post, I hope to see you there! :D

Take the free shuttle from the San Jose Convention Center (SJCC) to the "DoubleTree":

2. At the DoubleTree, walk from the shuttle into the lobby entrance. The Manga Ichiba space should be on your left!

3. Once you walk from the lobby to the Manga Ichiba space, find me at Table B16 below!

(First two maps are from the official FanimeCon site, third was provided to us from the Manga Ichiba staff, edited with directions & info!)

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Bonus booklet preview :D

Thank you to the kind people of bsky for enabling me into doing this additional booklet lol (this is separate from the main book).

This spread from the "extra artwork" section shows one of the earliest times I ever drew Trahearne (on the right) alongside one of my more recent paintings of him (on the left, as the "Mist Stranger" from the fan speculation theory).

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When you go out for milk for 14 years and all you get is a cool anime eyepatch

In other words Harbinger's Path has been rotting my brain so I'm dragging up this lost weed for Mael's verse and giving him more problems. Dedicating the art to @landylachs who's probably the #1 Malyck fan on the net lol

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[landylachs]

Aw, thanks Quen <3 I love seeing you draw him and developing his character more in your stories too! Looking forward to seeing where you take him :D